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Sense and Sensibility

So it’s 404 Not Found goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura Gascoigne

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parks her brush and tries to
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follow the instructions for flatpack art, but has the picture upside down It’s a dull job being a customs officer, sitting on the border twiddling your thumbs until the next teenage drugs mule comes along. So it must have added to the gaiety of nations when […]

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Overkill: art rising from the dead

Things have gone rather quiet on the mortality front since queues stretched around the White Cube block in Mason’s

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Yard for a sight

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of Damien Hirst’s £50m sculpture For the Love of God. In those 404 Not Found days of skulls and diamonds, Paul Wilks wrote a letter to The Jackdaw lamenting the morbidity of contemporary art, wondering why two horrific world wars […]

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The way we are now – why ‘avant garde’ is now an obsolete term

The Times

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– God bless its little cotton socks – has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark

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Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” It was so indeed, but not exactly in the terms the 404 Not Found article intends. Here […]

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1988 … Year zero

… when branding and art formed a marriage of convenience, argues artist John Kelly. 1988 is the seminal

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year, the year that our concepts of art, money and values changed irredeemably. It was the year I came to London as a 23-year-old artist,

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having taken an opportunity to play 404 Not Found league cricket in London. It was a chance for a young […]